Former Marion County Chief Deputy Prosecutor David Wyser leaves the Federal Courthouse with his attorney Mark Inman in July after a federal judge accepted his guilty plea to bribery.

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Former deputy prosecutor David Wyser's after-the-fact acceptance of a $2,500 reward for approving the early release of a convicted killer was a "wobble" in an otherwise unblemished career of public service, federal Judge Sarah Evans Barker said Monday as she sentenced Wyser to three years of probation.

The sentence, which will begin in January with six months of house arrest at Wyser's home in Nevada, was significantly less than the 15 to 21 months in prison sought by federal prosecutors.

Barker handed down the sentence after Wyser, 53, stood up in court and explained how much he now regrets ...